I let my kids play with TuxPaint, a free paint app that is geared for kids. It doesn't require a keyboard so I put that out of reach. I also have a gamming optical mouse that let's you change the speed of the mouse with a small button on the mouse. I turn the mouse speed way down before I hand it over to them. Might need to wait until he/she's a little older.
Absolutely, I had been discussing with friends that if Second Life remained a closed system it would eventually get left behind, very similar to the Internet and early private networks like AOL. Now that they have gone open, I don't see why it couldn't become Stephenson's metaverse.
As PCs get cheaper I think they will take market share from the consoles, until the PC becomes the de facto single console. I think there are already more PC game titles than console titles, and the penetration of PC's is higher than that of game consoles.
I would love to see benchmark like these for cell phone handset reception. Now days there is no way to tell if your cell phone is crapy or just your network.
There have been regulated, censored sections of the Internet before. Example: AOL. A little internet with a set of "captive" users. They dictated what sites where allowed inside the walls, and censored sites from beyond. In the end, the walls crumbeled. Slowly but surely Chinas Internet wall will open up to the world, just like their economy is doing.
Combine a continuous 3D movement sensor small enough to fit in a cell, with two tiny screens, one over each eye, and some software... Looks like we could have lighter smaller virtual reality headsets coming our way.
...more money being made at the expense of the environment. I'm telling ya' the take from the business folks will be that global warming is good for business. If temperatures keep rising, that Article Circle land, might become prime water front real estate.
Really, if there was an announced problem with your car that might lead to a thief getting in and driving off with it, wouldn't you get it fixed?
Not if he always brought it back in the morning;)
That's why people don't give a crap, cuz the machine still kinda runs. Most people probably chuck it up to: "God this old machine dosen't run like it use to could! I should have never upgraded to IE6."
I think free software plays a similar role in the software industry that local governments building their own networks plays in the telecom industry; Namely to spur innovation. If you won't give us the features we want, we'll do it our selves.
Open Source developers code for them selves, since they are almost always users.
I think a case can be made that First Person Shooters are VR. And from the articles descriptions of the VR they use with patients, I'd say PFSs are a hell of a lot more sophisticated than what their using on patients. So what are the effects on the human mind of going through 4 hours of virtual war a few nights a week? I think it's only a matter of time before we start seeing gamers come down with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. I should know I game. Have you had trouble sleeping after a long night of gaming? Can't close your eyes with out images of fire fights coming to your mind? Doesn't sound like a healthy mind to me. All things in moderation.
Programmers who just happen to be medical doctors are aggressively sought out by the Pharmaceutical industry. You can get experience in programming by doing it as a volunteer for any number of non-profit organizations.
Slashdot had a post on researchers efficiently changing the frequency of light. There are some naturally occuring gaps in the electromagnetic spectrum, nothing creates signals/noise at these frequencies and nothing absorbs/shields them. If you could see the world in this color everything would be made of glass. Using GPS to aim and lasers that transmit at this color we could send light pulses at the person you wanted to talk to, even through the middle of the earth.
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I let my kids play with TuxPaint, a free paint app that is geared for kids. It doesn't require a keyboard so I put that out of reach. I also have a gamming optical mouse that let's you change the speed of the mouse with a small button on the mouse. I turn the mouse speed way down before I hand it over to them. Might need to wait until he/she's a little older.
Absolutely, I had been discussing with friends that if Second Life remained a closed system it would eventually get left behind, very similar to the Internet and early private networks like AOL.
Now that they have gone open, I don't see why it couldn't become Stephenson's metaverse.
How does this compare to a Field Programmable Gate Array?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FPGA
Is this a bunch of those plus some BIOS like program to optimize it?
Your gonna get me fired, I'm sitting here laughing my ass off, and all my work mates think I'm crazy.
As PCs get cheaper I think they will take market share from the consoles, until the PC becomes the de facto single console. I think there are already more PC game titles than console titles, and the penetration of PC's is higher than that of game consoles.
I would love to see benchmark like these for cell phone handset reception. Now days there is no way to tell if your cell phone is crapy or just your network.
There have been regulated, censored sections of the Internet before. Example: AOL. A little internet with a set of "captive" users. They dictated what sites where allowed inside the walls, and censored sites from beyond. In the end, the walls crumbeled. Slowly but surely Chinas Internet wall will open up to the world, just like their economy is doing.
Combine a continuous 3D movement sensor small enough to fit in a cell, with two tiny screens, one over each eye, and some software... Looks like we could have lighter smaller virtual reality headsets coming our way.
...more money being made at the expense of the environment. I'm telling ya' the take from the business folks will be that global warming is good for business. If temperatures keep rising, that Article Circle land, might become prime water front real estate.
The liquid lenses will stand up to weather about as well as the phone's LCD screen.
Extreme cold killing a cell phone is nothing new.
Really, if there was an announced problem with your car that might lead to a thief getting in and driving off with it, wouldn't you get it fixed? ;)
Not if he always brought it back in the morning
That's why people don't give a crap, cuz the machine still kinda runs. Most people probably chuck it up to: "God this old machine dosen't run like it use to could! I should have never upgraded to IE6."
I think free software plays a similar role in the software industry that local governments building their own networks plays in the telecom industry; Namely to spur innovation. If you won't give us the features we want, we'll do it our selves. Open Source developers code for them selves, since they are almost always users.
I think a case can be made that First Person Shooters are VR. And from the articles descriptions of the VR they use with patients, I'd say PFSs are a hell of a lot more sophisticated than what their using on patients. So what are the effects on the human mind of going through 4 hours of virtual war a few nights a week? I think it's only a matter of time before we start seeing gamers come down with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. I should know I game. Have you had trouble sleeping after a long night of gaming? Can't close your eyes with out images of fire fights coming to your mind?
Doesn't sound like a healthy mind to me.
All things in moderation.
Programmers who just happen to be medical doctors are aggressively sought out by the Pharmaceutical industry. You can get experience in programming by doing it as a volunteer for any number of non-profit organizations.
Slashdot had a post on researchers efficiently changing the frequency of light. There are some naturally occuring gaps in the electromagnetic spectrum, nothing creates signals/noise at these frequencies and nothing absorbs/shields them. If you could see the world in this color everything would be made of glass. Using GPS to aim and lasers that transmit at this color we could send light pulses at the person you wanted to talk to, even through the middle of the earth.